How to Lose Weight Fast with Ice Cream: Lose 10 Pounds in 3 days or Lose 20 Pounds in 10 Days

Weight loss is most successful if it is done little by little without denying oneself too much. That said, there are those dates and events when one just needs to lose a lot of weight fast. That is not the time to learn about the Atkins, South Beach, or Zone diet. It is the time when there is no time. Here is a plan where you can eat ice cream on diet and still lose 10 pounds in 3 day, that is over 4 kilos /kg, and almost 5kilos/ kg in 3days. The same plan also allows you to lose 20 pounds in 10 days. There are many stories as to the source of this diet, some claim it was invented by the Cleveland Hospital, some say it belongs to the American Heart Association. I have read people claiming they were given this diet to meet the weight limit to join the marines. None of this really matters, what you should know is that there is a plethora of obese, overweight people who have recorded that they lost weight, a few pounds or all their baby weight on this diet. This 3 day diet also works as a healthy detox.

The other use of this diet is that it will jumpstart your long term diet plan. The best thing I have found about this diet is that it will certainly curb your cravings.  After those three days or week, you will see that for a while you will not get those carb or sugar cravings. That really helps start a long term diet, think of it as a three day to one week boot camp.

This is definitely a healthy diet, you can check the nutritional amount of the foods yourself and calories as well. It will not work in the same way if you are already losing weight. This is really for starters, it is true that everyone loses faster in the beginning, but they just need the right plan. 

I have tried this diet three times, and for sure this is the best way to lose 10 pounds in 3 days or 20 pounds in 10 days. The last time I did it, I cheated quiet a bit but I stayed within the structure, I ate smoked salmon instead of the tuna, I doubled the portions at times, my spoon of peanut butter might have been, well let’s say you could not see the bottom of the spoon either, and I still lost 6 pounds in three days. Surely, that is partially water, but as long as it does not come back, fat and water are all contained in my body weight. If you are willing to do it for a whole week, I recommend that you begin on a Wednesday, you will see why:

The Plan

1^st Day:

Breakfast:

1 grapefruit

2 slices of low 2 tablespoons of sugar free peanut butter

Lunch:

½ cup of tuna OR ½ cup of low fat feta or cottage cheese OR ½ cup of sardines. No added oil.

2 slice of low calorie, low carb bread (each slice around 45 calories)

Dinner:

5 ounces of lean protein, you can use spices but no oil

1 cup of green vegetables (string beans, spinach, zucchine) steamed, grilled, raw or sautéed

1 cup of beets or carrots or celery

1 small apple or pear (eat with the skin)

1 cup of sugar free vanilla ice cream (Do not worry about the calorie or the fat, just make sure it is sugar free)

2^nd Day

Breakfast:

1 egg cooked without oil

2 slices of low calorie, low carb bread (each slice around 45 calories)

Half a medium sized banana

Lunch:

1 cup of tuna OR 1 cup of low fat feta or cottage cheese OR 1 cup of sardines. No added oil.

2 slices of low calorie, low carb bread (each slice around 45 calories)

Dinner:

5 ounces of lean protein, you can use spices but no oil

2 cup of green vegetables (string beans, spinach, zucchine) steamed, grilled, raw or sautéed

1 cup of beets or carrots or celery

½ of a banana

1 cup of sugar free vanilla ice cream

3^rd Day

Breakfast:

4 Saltine Crackers

1 slice of low fat cheddar, swiss, asiago, romano, aged gouda cheese

1 grapefruit

Lunch:

1 egg cooked without oil

2 slices of low calorie, low carb bread (each slice around 45 calories)

Dinner:

1 cup of tuna OR 1 cup of low fat feta or cottage cheese OR 1 cup of sardines. No added oil.

1 cup of beets or carrots or celery

1 cup of cauliflower or green vegetbables

1 apple

½ sugar free vanilla ice cream

Do not use any ketchup or other condiments. Do not use too much or too little salt. You can use as much spices as you like. Using mint will curb your apetite. Do not drink diet soda. You can drink sugar free mix drinks such as Crystal Light punch, but if you drink one glass of Crystal Light, make sure to drink a glass of water. Your body processed water differently. This diet is a lot about flushing your system, it is a healthy detox. So, keep the bad stuff out as much as possible even if it has no calories.

It is very important that you do not stay on this diet for more than ten days. If you will do it for ten days, you need to take 4 days of after the first three days, and eat normally, target less than 2000 calories on those days and do not eat sugar and white flour. Then you can do this for another three days.

Take a vitamin before you go to bed each night, taking your vitamin in the morning may increase your appetite.

You can drink as much tea as you like, watch the coffee, do not use any creamer or milk, coffee can affect your blood sugar negatively which as a result make you feel tired and less eager to carry on with the diet. Drinking green tea will in fact help your weight loss. Make sure to drink at least 10 cups of water. The warmer the water, the more it will help your goal.

Sleep well on these days, and do light exercise like going for a long walk or bike or swim. Do not do cardio or aerobic exercises, do not overexert your self but do not sit on the bed and watch TV.

It is very important that you stay hydrated and that you preserve enough intake of salt, but not much as it will bloat you, during this diet. If you do drink enough water and sleep enough, and you get dizzy, headaches, cold sweats, palpitation or an unwell feeling, just stop and eat. You should not feel this way, but every metabolism is different and no short term goal is worth making yourself sick. If you want to survive this diet as a means to jump start a long term diet and feel unwell, then increase the portions (not the content) and add a couple of 100 calorie no sugar, and low carb and low fat snacks throughout the day, an ounce of cheese or almonds with a fruit is a great snack. You will not lose as much weight but will still stay on track and finish the three days which is more important when your goal is to jumpstart a long term plan.

You need to be careful with one thing, our bodies adapt easily. We have been coded to survive long periods of hunger. When the body feels threatened it will switch to starvation mode, this is very detrimental to not only your health but also weight loss. Do not stay on this diet for more than three days at a time and do not eat less than what is listed unless you are very petite and your calorie intake is much lower than average.